2nd International Road Safety & Innovation Forum
Leveraging New Technologies & Good Practices From Europe and Beyond
Sofia, Bulgaria May 15, 2019
ORGANIZED IN COLLABORATION WITH
in association with the 17th EuroRAP General Assembly 1 About the Forum
MAY 15, 2019
08:30-09:00 Registrations & Welcome Coffee
09:00-10:30 Opening Session Keynote address: John Dawson, Founding Chairman, EuroRAP Getting to Vision Zero in Bulgaria • Minister of Regional Development and Public Works • Krasimir Tsipov, Deputy Minister of Interior • Minister of Transport, Information Technology and Communication
A Decade of Action for Road Safety: What have we learned? • Ferry Smith, Chairman, EuroRAP • Michael G. Dreznes, Executive Vice President, IRF • Nikolay Ivanov, President, BBARS
10:30-11:00 Refreshment break and High Level Visit of the Innovation Forum
11:00-12:30 Innovations in policies & diagnoses Introduced and moderated by Malina Krumova, State Agency for Road Safety • Georgi Terziiski, Chairman of the Board, Road Infrastructure Agency • Philipp Troppman, European Commission Infrastructure Directive 2008/96/EC opportunities after rethink and revision, • Rossitsa Spassova, member, Bulgarian Branch Association “Road Safety” Adoption and implementation of 2008/96/EC in Bulgaria • Ian Koeppel, ESRI Transport Europe Mainstreaming road safety with GIS • Richard Lax, Kapsch TraffiCom New directions for data-driven road safety
12:30-13:30 Lunch Break & Innovation Forum
13:30-15:00 Innovative Treatments and Investment Panel Introduced and moderated by Mike Dreznes, IRF • Radoslav Vlahov, Member of the Board, Road Infrastructure Agency Innovative approaches and cost-effective treatments in Bulgaria • Philip Wijers, Chair, IRF Committee on Enforcement Safe speed management & enforcement • Olivera Djordjevic, EIRA-EuroRAP, Project Director, RADAR What RADAR means for Bulgaria and Bulgarian Engineers • Hatem Chahbani, Senior Transport Specialist, the World Bank Evaluating the impacts of road safety treatments • Per Mathiasen, Senior Transport Engineer, European Investment Bank Road safety at the heart of investment – the EiB hub
15:00-15:30 Refreshment Break Schedule-at-a-Glance 2
15:30-16:30 Leveraging EuroRAP Success Stories Introduced and moderated by Ferry Smith, EuroRAP • Lluis Puerto, RACC, Star Rating the Spanish national network • James Bradford, Global Product Director, EuroRAP, Star Rating of designs – “try before you buy (and build)” • Stelios Efstathiadis / Marko Ševrović, Transportation Solutions/FPZ “SLAIN” – saving lives by extending Directive 2008/96/EC in Croatia, Greece, Italy and Spain • John Dawson, EuroRAP, The UK’s Safer Roads Programme – update
16:30-17:00 Closing Panel: Creating a Marketplace for Road Safety • Ferry Smith, Chairman, EuroRAP • Michael G. Dreznes, Executive Vice President, IRF • Nikolay Ivanov, President, BBARS • Philipp Troppmann, European Commission SPONSORS
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